#first cause

[mrs-trophy-wife]

All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.

(John 1:3)

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

“The single best argument against the tired old ‘the universe is so complex that it MUST have a creator’ is simply this: then who created the creator

Surely a being that is able to create an entire universe must be even more complex than the universe he created?

So it stands to reason that, if complexity means that something MUST have been created, then the creator must also have a creator.

And the creator of the creator must in turn also have a creator.

Ad infinitum.”

-- Anneke Beunen

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This isn’t a new argument, and sufficiently stymies believers to the extent that Muhammad attributed it to “Satan” and told Muslims to just ignore it.

https://quranx.com/Hadith/Bukhari/USC-MSA/Volume-4/Book-54/Hadith-496/

Narrated Abu Huraira:

Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "Satan comes to one of you and says, 'Who created so-and-so? 'till he says, 'Who has created your Lord?' So, when he inspires such a question, one should seek refuge with Allah and give up such thoughts."

https://quranx.com/Hadith/Bukhari/USC-MSA/Volume-9/Book-92/Hadith-399/

Narrated Anas bin Malik:

Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "People will not stop asking questions till they say, 'This is Allah, the Creator of everything, then who created Allah?' "

https://quranx.com/Hadith/Muslim/USC-MSA/Book-1/Hadith-244/

It is narrated on the authority of Abu Huraira that the Messenger of Allah may peace be upon him) observed:

The Satan comes to everyone. of you and says: Who created this and that? till he questions: Who created your Lord? When he comes to that, one should seek refuge in Allah and keep away (from such idle thoughts).

[moralfoundation]

BEHOLD THE MAN SERIES: TRUTH

What is Truth? This is the question that has plagued humanity since our very existence. We seem disoriented and lost as we struggle through life, seeking answers to our purpose and meaning to life. Is this all there is to life? We look at the world around us, and we fall within its subjective standards of what life is all about. Always dictated into believing that we exist none other than what is…

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[septembersung]

The world, and man, attest that they contain within themselves neither their first principle nor their final end, but rather that they participate in Being itself, which alone is without origin or end. Thus, in different ways, man can come to know that there exists a reality which is the first cause and final end of all things, a reality 'that everyone calls 'God' [St. Thomas Aquinas].

Catechism of the Catholic Church, no.34.

[liberortus]

The Charge of the Lady of the Eye

I am the beauty of the crimson flames, and the mysteries of life, within the vitality of the verdant Earth; I am the silver Moon, the golden Sun and the glittering Stars of all colours. I call unto thy soul, arise and come unto Me, for I am the soul of nature from whom Essence is born, and all the universe flows forth; yes, all things are born from me, and to their Mother must return. For those who may pierce my veil in perfect faith, you shall be enfolded in the rapture of the Infinite, and your innermost divinity shall ascend to the Great Celestial Temple.

Let My worship be within the heart that rejoices, for all acts of love and pleasure are My rituals. Therefore let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you. And thou who thinkest to seek Me, know that seeking and yearning shall avail thee not, unless thou knowest the Mystery: if that which thou seekest, thou findest not within thee, thou shalt never find it without. For behold, I have been with thee from the beginning, and I am that which is attained at the end of desire.

[uberzev]

First Cause

So, we've all heard the argument from first cause. Typically it goes something like this, "x causes y, y causes z, ad infinitum". The objection now is "what causes x?" to which one can either answer "x causes itself, it is God" or "x was caused by another force we don't know of, presumably matter". Both conclusions don't escape the problem. Simply giving x a new name, or stating that there is no paradox does not give an answer! So, we must rethink this issue. We must ask, can God be equated to x? The answer is demonstrably, no! God, whatever it may be, is immaterial, if we hold that God had a causal connection with matter, then we hold God to be another object in the chain of objects, the only special attribute (which is not in the essence of the object but only in its relation) is that it is first. So, if God is not an object in causality, how can it cause? I remember as a child, my father used to say, "God is prior to all, he is not a body and he does not have a body". Working with this definition, God is immaterial (has no body, as we already concluded) and he is also prior to causality itself. We might think of a person, a person is rational, that is what causes it to be a person and not an animal, it is also living, but even before it living it must exist. Existence is prior to all causal relations of the subject, being is primordial. You can apply this to all things, for a thing to exist it must first "be", a subject which predicates (being, predicating living, predicating rationality, which then contains man). Now, we might want to go even further, and abstract this principle of being to be something that is present in all things, and therefore also the cause of all things, a complete, simple, unity. "Nothing to something." We might call this, Being, substance, nothing, tao or God, all which hold the same meaning. For those of you who are familiar with the history of philosophy, this might sound similar to neo platonism, or Islamic theology, indeed this is not from my own intellect but it has been acquired from authors from these movements. Particularly, al-Kindi. This is not a belief I hold dear, merely a thought I found interesting.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

They think this is bulletproof. And not completely insane.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

The existence of the world and the entire universe is all the proof we need that an eternal creator God exists. Which is why the existence of an eternal creator God is all the proof we need for the existence of SuperGod, the super-eternal maker of all creator Gods. Whatever eternity God sees is only a subset of the super-eternity visible to SuperGod. Whatever infinite realm God occupies is only a subset of the super-infinity granted to God by SuperGod. The existence of SuperGod is, of course, all the proof we need of UltraGod, the ultra-eternal SuperGod-maker.

And the existence of UltraGod is all the proof we need of HyperGod, the hyper-eternal UltraGod-maker...